Criticism of the widespread practice in the United States of keeping prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement is growing because advocates and prisoners themselves have made it an issue. No place...
Criticism of the widespread practice in the United States of keeping prisoners in prolonged solitary confinement is growing because advocates and prisoners themselves have made it an issue. No place...
The Rev. Scott Lively runs a Bible study four mornings a week at Holy Grounds Coffee House in Springfield, Mass. His Abiding Truth Ministries provides meals and movies for the homeless and hosts...
...Friday is the third anniversary of the landmark federal court ruling by Judge Shira Scheindlin that found “ stop and frisk ” policing as practiced in New York weighed heavily on innocent young men...
In the last day of U.S. Supreme Court arguments under the Obama administration, Muslim, South Asian and Arab men rounded up in New York after 9/11 asserted Wednesday that unconstitutional national-...
The Louisiana Bucket Brigade is an environmental justice organization that advocates for communities most impacted by the state’s oil refineries and chemical plants. It has fought construction of...
Opponents of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline took the fight to Gov. John Bel Edwards on Thursday. The groups Louisiana Bucket Brigade and the Center for Constitutional Rights held a news conference...
...First up: a report and interactive map by the Immigrant Defense Project (IDP) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which analyzes 650 raids going back as far as 2013. The majority of...
... Pam Spees, a senior staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights who is representing groups opposed to the Bayou Bridge project, said the situation raises important concerns about...
...The suit, filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Constitutional Rights, alleges that a proposed rule change announced on Monday by the...